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Tardis

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'''TARDIS''', or '''Tardis''', stands for '''Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space'''

It is the name of the [[space]]-[[time]] ship in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and generally of the [[Time Lords]]' distinctive means of transport. TARDISes are dimensionally transcendental machines, which can exist simultaneously in different dimensions, allowing their interiors to be much larger than their exteriors, for instance.

The [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]] sometimes calls his TARDIS "old girl". It is a Type 40, and generally considered obsolete and unreliable, and its chameleon circuit is broken, so that its exterior shape remains that of a 20th century London police telephone box.

[[Master (Doctor Who)|The Master]] and the [[the Rani]] also have TARDISes.

== External Links ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS Wikipedia entry for TARDIS]

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Barbara Wright

2007-09-17T20:28:23Z

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| Names = Barbara Wright
| Occupation = History Teacher, adventurer
| Works = [[Doctor Who]]
| Image = [[Image:BarbaraInsideTARDIS.JPG‎|160px]]
| Caption = Barbara enters the [[TARDIS]] in "[[An Unearthly Child]]"
}}'''Barbara Wright''' is a fictional character from the series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and one of the [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]]'s original human [[companion (Doctor Who)|companions]]. She was played by Jacqueline Hill.

Barbara Wright was [[Susan Foreman]]'s history teacher at Coal Hill School.

She was the first human in the series to set foot in the [[TARDIS]], and also to step out of it, both in a different time and on a different world. She was the first character in the series to encounter a [[Dalek]] as well. She is a strong-willed, courageous and intelligent woman, both pragmatic and resourceful, and known to have successfully impersonated a goddess.

She is generally made of awesome.

She was close to [[Ian Chesterton]], the science teacher from the same school with whom she shared the adventure of travelling across time and space in the first two seasons of the series.

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Susan Foreman

2007-09-17T20:27:30Z

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| Names = Susan Foreman
| Occupation = companion, student, granddaughter
| Works = [[Doctor Who]]
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'''Susan Foreman''' is a fictional character from ''[[Doctor Who]]'', played by Carole Ann Ford.

She is the [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]]'s granddaughter, and a [[Gallifreyan]] (though the series did not establish their species until after her departure from it). The last name "Foreman" is a pseudonym taken from a sign for the junkyard where the [[TARDIS]] was parked.

She appeared to be a teenaged [[human]] girl, and while staying on Earth in London in [[1963]] she attended the local Coal Hill School, where her peculiar behaviour attracted the attention of two of her teachers, who followed her home and discovered that she lived in the [[TARDIS]]. Unwilling to let them go after this discovery, the Doctor set the Tardis in motion, and they all ended up stuck travelling in the capricious space-time ship together.

Susan and her teachers are considered to be ''Doctor Who'''s first three [[companion (Doctor Who)|companions]], and Susan was the first to leave the series.

Sometimes credited with inventing the name [[TARDIS]]. (Series continuity is fuzzy on the word: in "An Unearthly Child", she says she made it up, but the later expansion of the show's [[canon]] may implicitly [[retcon]] her invention the word, or require a lot of ingenuity to integrate it.)

Carole Ann Ford reprised the role of Susan for the 20th anniversary ''Doctor Who'' special "The Five Doctors" in [[1983]].

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